About this phrase

The literal meaning of más é do thoil é is if it is your will but its actual meaning is please.

The phrase is constructed as follows:

• Más, is a conjunction má, meaning if, combined with the present tense of the copula is, meaning it is. In the spoken form, a sandhi event causes más to become máis under the influence of the following slender vowel.
• É is the third person, singular, masculine object pronoun meaning he or it.
• Do is the possessive adjective, second person, singular: your. It lenites, when followed by a lenitable consonant.
• Toil is a feminine noun that means will (in the sense of 'desire').
• É is again the third person, singular, masculine object pronoun.

Other ways of saying please

Le do thoil (with your will) occurs just as frequently más é do thoil é in everyday speech.

Plural forms are más é bhur dtoil é and le bhur dtoil.